Not So Little Egypt

Path forward?  Egypt's democratic future is a violent and dangerous one in the short term.  Being a democracy absolutist is a relatively secure position to hold in these circumstances, but I can't help but think how fucking cowardly and terrible the democracy absolutists were in 2000 in the Unites States when the craven Gore gave up the fight and allowed the Supreme Court to legitimize a right wing coup while declaring and declaiming the glory of American democracy even as it was destroyed.  On the other hand, popular-demand military coups will curdle faster than yesterday's yogurt.  Revolution is bloody proposition; American and western intervention in Egypt have not helped so far and will only make this worse.  Egypt's path should be, must be, blazed by the Egyptians and no one else.